Anita Say Chan, assistant research professor of communications, Department of Media and Cinema Studies at Illinois, will give a talk titled, "Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures, Digital Memory and the Myth of Digital Universalism," at this CIRSS Seminar.

Talk: "Cook and Peary: The Race to the North Pole"

In 1909, Robert Peary and Frederick Cook each began a trip to be the first to the North Pole. The results have generated controversy for more than a century. This talk will trace the history of their rivalry and the story of their journeys.

Talk by Sharon Michalove, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Program in Medieval Studies (retired).

9th Annual Brieland Visiting Scholar Lecture

MRL Biological Conference 2015

The 4th Annual MRL Biological Conference will be held November 4-5, 2015 at the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus.

The Materials Research Laboratory offers an array of characterization tools which enable a wide range of structural research in biological and advanced materials systems. To further educate our user base in the number of options available to them our fourth workshop is devoted to biological inquiry and applications.

IGB Entrepreneurship Lecture Series

IGB Entrepreneurship Lecture Series – new lecture series

RK Narayanan, Ph.D. Technology Manager

Office of Technology Management“Career paths in Biology, Role of OTM in technology transfer, an introduction to intellectual property (IP) and patents and resources for entrepreneurship at Illinois” Free pizza!

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

The United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will visit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to speak about the role of public research universities in addressing international food security.

Hosted by the International Food Security at Illinois (IFSI) initiative and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Vilsack will speak at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2015, at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 South Lincoln Avenue, in Urbana. A reception will follow.

Tiny Cells, Global Impact: A Journey of Discovery with a Microbe from the Sea - Penny Chisholm, MIT

The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is proud to host our symposium "Looking in the right direction: Carl Woese and the New Biology" from September 19-20, 2015, to mark the renaming of our Institute.

A special public lecture will be held Friday evening, September 18, by Penny Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entitled "Tiny Cells, Global Impact: A Journey of Discovery with a Microbe from the Sea"

Science Visualization Workshop

NCSA is a participating site for this FREE two-day training course (Aug. 24-25) that will introduce students to data visualization with a primary focus on visualization of large volumetric data resulting from simulation and instrumentation.